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Monthly Archives: February 2014

For me, one sound will always be synonymous with my recent fieldwork in Senegal. Not the raspy calls of reed warblers but the sound of hundreds of White-faced Whistling Ducks as they arrived each morning at the lagoon near to where we were staying, and departed each night. The White-faced Whistling Duck Dendrocygna viduata (WFWD) is a…

I’ve not long returned from a two week research trip to Senegal – I know but someone had to do it. Although it was a lot of fun, I was there to help my good friend and research buddy James Vafidis with field work for his PhD. We were part of a team of seven…